SIMCA GORDINI – year 1952

Industrial Company of Mechanics and Automobile Bodywork Nanterre, His, France.

The FIA ​​announced in the years 1952 i 1953 Formula World Championship 2, thus encouraging companies with less technical and financial capabilities to participate in races.

In the season 1952 The French company Simca-Gordini joined the competition for the Grand Prix. Before World War II, Amedee Gordini specialized in improving the Simca sports cars. After the war, he built his first monoposto with a powerful four-cylinder engine 47,8 kW (65 KM) and capacity 1,1 liter. Later, the engine capacity was gradually increased and in 1949 r was already she 1490 cm3 with the same cylinder diameter. The cast iron engine block had steel bushings. The crankshaft was mounted in five Vanderwell plain bearings. Valve timing 2 x OHC was solved by two camshafts in the cylinder head.

W 1951 On the year, the engine was equipped with a Roots compressor, compressing the mixture from the carburetor to pressure 200 kPa. Thanks to this, the engine power was obtained 132,5 kW (180 KM) by 7000 RPM. The vehicle could be equipped with four- or a five-speed gearbox with the so-called. overdrive. The drive unit was mounted in a tubular frame made of thin-walled tubes, and the whole thing was covered with a body made of aluminum sheet. The front wheels were independently suspended in a trapezoidal arrangement, and the rear axle was stiff. At the front, spring springs with telescopic shock absorbers are used, and at the rear there are longitudinal torsion bars. Hydraulic drum brakes acted on all wheels. Thanks to its extremely low weight – 400 kg – the car had good performance and top speed 235 km/h.

Simca Gordini has only won the Grand Prix race once. W 1952 of the year, led by French competitor Jean Belir, won the Grand Prix in Reims, overtaking the entire Ferrari team and reaching an average speed 168,6 km/h.